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AKA: Schoenfeld Furniture Company, Store #1, Downtown, Seattle, WA; Schoenfelds' Standard Furniture Company, Store #1, Downtown, Seattle, WA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Thompson and Thompson, Architects (firm); Charles Lawton Thompson (architect)
Dates: constructed 1903
6 stories
Louis Schoenfeld (born 1840 in Germany) arrived in Seattle, WA, in 1888, and began a furniture business that operated well into the 20th century. (See Men of the Pacific Coast: Containing Portraits and Biographies of the Professional, Financial and Business Men of California, Oregon and Washington, 1902-1903, [San Francisco: Pacific Art Company, c. 1903], p. 634.) Taboo Video and Recycled Home Company occupied storefronts at 1012 First Avenue and 1016 First Avenue respectively in 2009.
The Schoenfeld Furniture Building had six floors and was of unreinforced masonry construction.
The building has been heavily remodeled. The Nordstrom Rack Department Store occupied the building's first floor during the 1980s-present.
PCAD id: 6199
